Centripetal

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1. Adjective

Tending, or causing, to approach the center.

2. Adjective

Expanding first at the base of the inflorescence, and proceeding in order towards the summit.

3. Adjective

Having the radicle turned toward the axis of the fruit, as some embryos.

4. Adjective

Progressing by changes from the exterior of a thing toward its center; as, the centripetal calcification of a bone.
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